From Jesus to Christ

The First Christians

Canadian rating: G.Explore the life of Jesus and the movement he started, challenging familiar assumptions and conventional notions about the origins of Christianity. Drawing upon new and sometimes controversial historical evidence and interviews with the nation's leading New Testament scholars, the series transports the viewer back two thousand years to the time and place where Jesus once lived and preached.

Comment

A DISAPPOINTING WASTE OF TIME. Especially disappointing considering it was put out by PBS, which usually offers better quality. If you are not familiar with the Bible, this video will not be of help to you. If you are already familiar with the Bible, then you will recognize this video as nothing more than an attempt by the speakers to assert their own views and pass it off as history.

This is an amazing account of the transition of Jesus from human to God. The scholars are exemplary in their discussion of this morphing of a new religion and how it used the old religion, Judaism, to gain credibility.